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A Chain-Smoking Journeyman
Holds Off Woods, Furyk at Open

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Carl Bialik and

Jason Fry

Updated June 18, 2007 12:29 p.m. ET

Weekend golfers who hit the ball hard and skip the psychobabble, maybe the U.S. Open's for you.

The winner at Oakmont was 37-year-old Angel Cabrera, nicknamed "The Duck" and described by ESPN.com's Bob Harig as "a big-hitting, chain-smoking journeyman pro." Now he's described by the history books as the man who wound up holding a trophy after finishing a stroke ahead of Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk. (He won the Fix over for keeps when he said, "There are some players who have psychologists, sportologists....